- Dágrau am urddedíg-Rys
- Yw’r môr hallt, os gwir marw̯ Rhys.—G.Gl., m 146/171.
‘The salt sea is tears for noble Rhys, if it is true that Rhys is dead.’
See Uchél-Grist, D.G. 259. The name Bendigéid-fran ‘Bran the Blessed’, was so accented, and the f was lost, § 110 iii (3), giving Bendigéidran (corrupted into Benegridran in Emerson’s English Traits, xi).
- Bondo gw̯ýdr Bendigéidran.—T.A., a 14976/166; c. ii 83.
‘The glass eaves of Bendigeidran.’
(3) When the first element has one of the mutable sounds ai, au, w, ɥ it is mutated in the compound, becoming ei, eu, ỿ, ỿ respectively, because it is no longer ultimate when the compound is treated as a single word; thus gwéith-dy ‘workshop’ (gwaith ‘work’), héul-des ‘heat of the sun’ (haul ‘sun’), drỿ́g-waith ‘evil deed’ (drwg ‘evil’), melỿ́n-wallt ‘yellow hair’ (melɥn ‘yellow’). In old compounds aw also is mutated, as in llófrudd, § 110 iii (1).
☞ A compound accented as above may be called a strict compound.
ii. (1) But the two elements of a compound may be separately accented; thus cṓel gréfydd ‘false religion’, gáu bróffwyd ‘false prophet’, hḗn w̄́r ‘old man’ (sometimes accented regularly, hénwr, b.cw. 64).
(2) The difference between a secondary accent and a separate accent should be noted. A secondary accent is always subordinate to the principal accent; but when the first element of a compound has a separate accent it is independent of the accent of the second element and may even be stronger if the emphasis requires it. Again, the first element when separately accented has the unmutated ai, au, w, or ɥ in its final syllable; thus in cỿ̀d-nabỿ́ddiaeth ‘acquaintance’ there may be a secondary accent on cỿ̆d (short ỿ) but in cɥ̄́d gỿnúlli̯ad there is an independent accent on cɥ̄d (long ɥ). In fact, when there is a separate accent, the first element is treated as an independent word for all purposes of pronunciation (accentuation, vowel quantity, and vowel mutation).
☞ A compound accented as above may be called a loose compound.
(3) Sometimes the elements of a loose compound are now hyphened, thus coel-grefydd; but as any positive adjective put before a noun forms with it a loose compound, in the vast majority of such compounds the elements are written as separate words. See § 155 iii.
iii. An adjective or noun compounded with a verb or verbal
